This happened with one of my nephews – he had the most glorious blond curly locks but, even being dressed in blue, wearing a cap and a t-shirt saying “Mum thinks I’m the best boy ever:” he always got refereed to by strangers as ‘such a pretty girl”!

This has never happened to me and my son, but I think alot of the time its an honest mistake, just correct them and move on

My baby girl has a very feminine name and I always dress her in pink, purple, floral patterns etc and one nurse in the hospital kept calling her a boy!!! Drove me insane!

I am sure some do it out of pure error whilst others to get a reaction (unfortunately there are people out there that enjoy pushing buttons)…giving it really doesn’t matter may I suggest not reacting.

My son is 2 and he still gets called a girl. Sometimes you have to correct them multiple times as they are adamant he is a she. With his dinosaur shorts and Thomas the Tank engine shirt and monster socks, blue sneakers and a Hot Wheels car in each hand. Totally feminine.

The exact same thing happened to it didn’t bother me I just ignored the person and didn’t even answer

Has happened to me too – I gave up worrying about it after a while – just smiled and walked on.

I think I vaguely remember this happening once with my first son.

I was always told my son was too pretty to be a boy!!

I was regularly mistaken for a boy when I was a baby & looking at photos I can see why! Funnily enough though, my youngest son has been mistaken for a girl a few times & he was the spitting image of me as a baby lol! I started getting paranoid that I was dressing him too girly

My obstetrician – who delivered my Son by emergency C-section – wrote to me (and copied to the GP), that he had delivered a healthy baby girl! Then, at my pregnancy planning visit – 4 years later – he asked me how my 4 year old daughter was going. Ah, who was the 4 year old boy in the room with me! He must have thought I had another one at home???

Never ever happened to me with my boys. Although I had an elderly aunt who had known me for years and she asked my mother “who that boy was that opened the door for her?” It was me, aged 16 with a new pixie haircut. Maybe the person had bad eyesight lol.

Both my first two babies (both daughters) got called “beautiful boys” by strangers. Even when wearing hot pink. And in the case of my eldest, with a pink dummy in her mouth (second wouldn’t have anything to do with dummy’s).
Now with my third baby – a son – people ask “another girl?” even when he is wearing blues, blacks etc.
(There was that one time I used one of the girls old light pink wraps for him and Santa asked the girls about their “new baby sister” and they just looked at him like he was blind!)

Of course when I correct people with my son, and say he is a boy I so often get “you finally got what you wanted then!” And don’t seem to like it when I answer “we decided he was the last for us whether he was a boy or girl – and we didn’t find out if we were having before he was born”.

Your article made me laugh. Happened to me all the time with my baby girl and I used to be quick to get upset about it as well. Good news – your baby won’t be a baby forever and soon it will be apparent to most people that she’s a toddler girl. Although I hate to break it to you but there are still people who will call her an “adorable boy”. I always think they should’ve gone to specsavers?!

I can’t believe that people can be silly enough to think that your girl was a boy when you most certainly had her dressed and accessorised as what she is and that is a girl. When I had my son 9 years ago & I was still in hospital one lady who I bumped into in the hall was taking a look at my baby & said what a beautiful girl, I wasn’t offended but I did correct her. My son had no identifying clothing, wrap etc. to indicate boy and he did look like a perfect little doll… poor kid honest mistake.

My oldest was forever being mistaken for a girl as boys do not have curls. One day he was dressed in a blue and white striped outfit, about 3-5 months with the words “I am a boy” on the shirt. Can not remember how many asked in the supermarket how my little girl was. This was early 80’s so before boys were wearing pink. Yet his brother in a Christening gown everyone knew he was male even though it had lots of lace on it with a bonnet, that was 2012. The twin sister to that one was mistaken for a boy as she had a blue butterfly sewn into her bonnet.

Ugh, I hated people who did that. I had 2 girls and yes they wore predominantly pink as babies. But seriously if you can’t tell what sex the child is then just say what a pretty baby. I’d rather hear that than get it wrong.

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  • • mom94125 replied
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  lol yeah, i suppose that we just have to realise that the stranger just means well, that is all lol

great read thanks for sharing

Poor you it must be so frustrating but if a baby is all in pink is it not a bit obvious what gender it is??!!

Hahahaha this is so well written! GAVE me a giggle but I feel Ur pain at the same time :/